Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register on resume

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jul 14 2008 - 02:36:20 EST


On Sun 2008-07-13 11:16:38, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>> In such case, you could verify by disabling intel framebuffer and just
>> using plain VGA driver (or vesafb).
>>
>> Breaking video bios calls would be bad.
>
> It would... but it doesn't seem to make much sense. What, in detail, does
> this particular quirk do?

lcall 0xc000, 3 into the BIOS :-(.
Pavel

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